John Preston
Scandinavian Scandals
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Desperation’s Noticeboard
Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column by H.G. Cocks
There Will Always be Blood
Indignation by Philip Roth
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities